Caitlín Maude, YouTube
apologies, I had the youtube video embedded, but it crashed some IE browsers
File, aisteoir, amhránaí agus agóidí ab ea Caitlín Maude. Cailleadh í i 1982 agus í 41 bliain d’aois. Ba chailliúint mhór í dá teaghlach agus don tír ar fad. Bhí sí ar dhuine de na healaíontóirí ba chruthaí dá raibh againn [...]

Poet Michael O’Dea has suggested, as a means of increasing poetry readership
…that Poetry Ireland, (since it will take such a central organisation), organise a Poets Corner in Dublin (maybe the first of many throughout the country) where everyone/anyone can stop for 15 minutes to listen and buy poetry. I would suggest that a meeting [...]

Browsing through best-seller lists these days can be quite depressing. I don’t know any of the authors, either in the fiction or non-fiction categories. Anne Enright was in the top five for a while, which was cheering.
I can normally take or leave lists, but when I came across this one from The Translators Association [...]

[Over the Edge press release]
Over The Edge presents a reading by Philip Casey, Eamonn Wall, Aideen Henry, John Liddy, Jarlath Fahy & John Menaghan at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, 14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway on Friday, July 18th, 8pm.
Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in Co [...]

As most of you may know by now, The Irish Times has lowered its paywall on its newspaper, though not its archives.
This was something that Damien Mulley predicted in January and announced last week on his blog. His initial reaction is here. I’m quoting him rather than giving an opinion myself as I’m [...]